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Hi, I suspect this is more of a WinXP issue, but since it drives me mad, I'll ask anyway. What I want: In Windows XP network neighborhood, select my samba server, select one of the shares, then have a dialog asking me for the respective Samba-username & -password to access the share. What I get: I get a dialog with the username "Guest", greyed out, asking me for a

Greetings, I'm having difficulty setting up an 'Anonymous Read-Write' SAMBA server on a new system with a stock FC2 installation for use with WinXP Pro systems. I'm using the following software on the 'fileserver': - Linux FC2 installed from the FC2 iso's: kernel 2.6.5-1.358 - samba-common-3.0.3-5 - samba-3.0.3-5 - samba-client-3.0.3-5 - samba-swat-3.0.3-5

hello everyone, i'm not even sure there is something wrong with samba here but im taking all chances... i have a linux samba server and 3 winXP prof pcs in my setup. now from one of the winxp boxes i can not seem to access my shares on the server. that is when i try to go through network neighborhood path. the message that is returned is : \\stargaze is not accessible. You may not have

Hello! One little problem when accessing Samba shares that require password authentication. I have WinXP. When clicking on the name of share in the Network Neighbourhood, I get prompt for password. But the user name field is greyed out and is preset to "guest". So I can't specify needed username. If I try to access password protected share created on some other Windows machine, then

I have a problem with a WinXP Home machine using Samba on a small home network. Here are the details: -Samba 3.0.10 -3 machines: VectorLinux v5 (smbserver), VectorLinux v5/Win98SE dual boot (wolf), WinXP Home (andrea), through a router. -workgroup is "HOME" -smb.conf is: [global] encrypt passwords = yes guest account = smbguest netbios name = MYSMBSERVER

Hi all... looking for some assistance with my first Samba setup. The setup: On a small (five-computer, mixed Win2k and WinXP pro) LAN, I'd like a share on my FreeBSD server to be available for storage. No printing, no PDC, no individual user directories or password protection -- just a big ol' slice of storage for everyone to access equally. I've come close, (the share shows up

popup message says" \\localhost is not available. " then goes on to say "you were not connected because a duplicate name exists on the network" When checking the network neighborhood from my winXP boxes, the linux box shows as "localhost" in the computer name field. The redhat 9 GUI Samba configuration does not have a variable field for computer name, nor do I

I have a win98 peer to peer network using a Samba server for file sharing. There 6 Machines on the net. I'm adding a XP Pro and cannot see the neighborhood network. I can get out to the Internet. I've made sure the workgroup name is correct and the XP is not set as DHCP. Our router is the DHCP. Is there something different about setting up the user for the XP Pro? I'm creating

I have been running a Samba PDC with Samba version 3.0.0 on Redhat 7.3 for quite some time. My WinXP Pro SP2 system is part of the domain and everything has been working just peachy. And then, of course, I had to tinker with it. I upgraded the linux box to Whitebox Linux 3.0, a derivative of Redhat Enterprise Linux 3.0. It comes with Samba 3.0.7. After installing and updating everything, I

Hello, As we will migrate to Win XP Client, is there a site, document, etc ... where I can find information about tests and results of Win XP behaviour with SAMBA ? Thanks Orazio

Just wondered if anyone fiqured out how to change the server string. (See below) Thanks Will >From a previously posted message: When viewing all mapped drives from WinXP, is there a way to change the string that is shown to describe which server the share belongs too? This is what is shown: groups on 'Samba Server (morpheus)' (G:) What I would like to be shown:

I'm running Samba 2.2.5 on HP-UX 10.20. I've recently started adding WinXP (and 2000) clients to my network. Here's my issue: (It seems to effect both the XP & 2000 machines) I installed a WinXP machine on the network. I was able to add a bunch of samba-networked printers to the Xp machine. I recently added 2 new printers to the network. I added the printer names to my

Hi, All. I hope everyone's enjoying the nice weather. I am called the system admin here, but really I just fell into the job over the past 25 years. Is there a way to search the archives? My problem is that I've suddenly got 6 WinXP desktops that can access only 1 of my 5 smb servers, 4 of which run on Linux and 1 on SCO Unix. The 1 they can access runs Linux with Samba version

Hi, win-xp won't boot after installation. The CD is needed to boot from. How can I convince win-xp to boot? That's what I did: ================== I installed win-xp guest on debian squeeze: # virt-install --connect qemu:///system --name winxp-prof --ram 1024 \ --disk path=/dev/vg-levo/winxp-kvm,size=10 \ --network bridge:br0 --vnc --os-variant winxp --cdrom /dev/sr0

I am running a network with 2 XP boxes and 1 RH8.0 box running Samba 2.2.8a (bin pkg). I have also tried Samba 2.2.5 (the included distro ver.) and Samba 3 (not in depth though). I have added my WinXP username/passwd to smbpasswd and to the Linux User list. I've tried encrypt passwords and have even tried playing with the 'gpedit.msc' in Win XP to turn off encryption to 3rd party

Hello to All! I've got a problem moving my ACT 2000 database from WinXP to Samba server on Linux. All clients are WinXP systems, Samba 2.2.5 runs on Debian Linux, 2.4.18 kernel. I have a share with ACT database which is connected to all WinXP systems as a mapped network drive. The first client starts ACT successfuly but when I try to launch ACT on the second client it says that ACT database

I've got to networks connected through leased line, routing set between networks, WINS server running on Samba. There's one primary samba server, and Win98/WinXP clients connected to it. First network with samba server works great with win98 and winxp. Second network also works ok with win98 clients, but when I connect Winxp it can't even open "my network places" and show

I'm having a problem with my XP & 2000 pc's, with printers. During the initial installation and configuration of these machines, everything is fine. But any printer added to the network AFTER the initial config of the winXP & win2000 pc's, isn't available to these machines. So... if I add any printers to my network, I can't use them with my winXP or win2000

I have a Samba PDC setup on FreeBSD with a WinXP, Win7, 2003 server and Ubuntu Linux all joined. All works from each workstation except for my Windows XP unable to access the Linux member. It can access all other computers except that one while Win7 and 2003 server have no problems accessing this Samba Linux member. The Linux member is running Samba 3.4.7... > [global] > netbios name =

I recently set up a Samba server (3.0.24-6etch9) on my debian etch system. While accessing its shares through 1GBit Ethernet with a Windows XP SP2 client there's some real odd behavior: In one direction (uploading files from WinXP -> debian) the speed is just great, no matter what, around 35MiB/s. In the other direction (downloading a file WinXP <- debian) it idles at around 120KiB/s